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Sander Van de Cruys @sandervdc.bsky.social · Feb 20

New post on the seductions of AI conversations: Cold humans and warm machines
www.thereisnoreward.com/p/cold-human...

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Edward Vessel @edwardvessel.bsky.social · Nov 15

A starter pack for empirical aesthetics and neuroaesthetics! A small start, but I’m sure it will grow. I will add more folks as I find them. Ping me with your additions. #neuroaesthetics #empiricalaesthetics

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · Sep 23

Intriguing post. I don't agree with everything Munger says, nor want to discuss specific points that seem to be of personal nature. But some of his observations about #metasci are on point, such as the distinction btw wanting to persuade colleagues vs imposing how everyone needs to do science. >

Do Something Else

Lakens and the Second Reformation

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Sander Van de Cruys @sandervdc.bsky.social · Sep 12

@stephengadsby.bsky.social and I wrote this new piece, discussing the role of 'aha' experiences in propagating belief in conspiracy theories.
psyche.co/ideas/the-su...

The surprising role of deep thinking in conspiracy theories | Psyche Ideas

People who endorse and spread outlandish theories aren’t gullible, they’re drawn to the intoxicating lure of discovery

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Sander Van de Cruys @sandervdc.bsky.social · May 29

New piece on our deepest motivations: open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...

One motive to rule them all?

On status vs power as first movers

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JoB @joberv.bsky.social · May 27

Prefaces of books I probably will never write.

Installment B: Being Bo(h)rn

Best phrase: "Two brother’s wonder at the straight lines thought by somebody with a back so crooked."

open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...

Being Bo(h)rn

Preface B

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JoB @joberv.bsky.social · May 12

Prefaces of books I probably will not write.

Installment A: an autistic history of philosophy.

Best phrase: “They clearly never met me with my mother”.

open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...

An Autistic History of Philosophy

Preface A

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Sander Van de Cruys @sandervdc.bsky.social · Jan 30

Thanks for sharing, many discoveries for me here! Can I propose Nguyen's "Games as the art of agency"? And maybe my own recent work on Order & change in art: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Sander Van de Cruys @sandervdc.bsky.social · Dec 19

👀Out now: A new open access publication in Phil. Trans. B with Jacopo Frascaroli and Karl Friston. We examine why we are grasped by art, and we end up exploring the essential tension in living beings between order and change. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Check out the special issue!

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Jaan Aru @jaanaru.bsky.social · Sep 25

Is Predictive Coding Falsifiable?

Great question, asked in this beautiful new paper

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Is Predictive Coding Falsifiable?

Predictive-coding has justifiably become a highly influential theory in Neuroscience. However, the possibility of its unfalsifiability has been raised…

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · Oct 22

It’s so hard not to screenshot all of Doppleganger by Naomi Klein but this point is so crucial.

I can’t type out this entire page but Klein is making the critical point that liberalism, as an ideology of capitalism, is the thinnest guardrail against fascism because its atomized exaltation of the individual is bound to fail the faithful when they encounter structural exploitations, deprivations and repressions that undergird capitalism. It really is socialism or barbarism

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Sander Van de Cruys @sandervdc.bsky.social · Oct 17

Yes! That would be worth digging into. The counts are normalized by nb of books published, but I also had no idea that the concept is that old. Its use might have morphed though. There is some history in this excellent analysis: harpers.org/archive/2021... Not nearly going that far back though.

Bad News, by Joseph Bernstein

Selling the story of disinformation

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Sander Van de Cruys @sandervdc.bsky.social · Oct 17

I tend to use Google ngram viewer for this (cut-off at 2019 but the trends are clear)

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Sören Krach @soerenkrach.bsky.social · Oct 15

"Perhaps it is time for funding bodies to rethink their application processes."

Interesting commentary on how ChatGPT is entering the grant-application system.

#rethinkfunding

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ChatGPT use shows that the grant-application system is broken

The fact that artificial intelligence can do much of the work makes a mockery of the process. It’s time to make it easier for scientists to ask for research funding. The fact that artificial intelli...

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · Oct 7

As Karl Weick explained, “how do I know what I think, until I see what I say?” And in writing, this is where we’re finally forced to make hard decisions about structure and to articulate concrete relationships between ideas. We may lose that when AI fills in those thoughts for us.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Oct 6

This from Rebecca Solnit is my biggest fear about AI. Writing teaches me about myself, and I can't imagine handing that over to a machine whose only incentive is monetizing every aspect of my life. But many people will make that bargain, sacrificing their own self-awareness in the process.

Are there certain parts of the writing process that you can't really imagine AI replicating? Or can you just talk a little bit about the kind of labor that goes into writing the work that you do?

I'm a writer because I want to write. I don't want a machine to do it for me. I'm a writer because the process of writing is creative in what I do with language, but also in how I understand the subject. I often feel that I don't think hard enough about things until I have to write about them. Often my understanding changes in the process of writing. That's exciting for me. That's my own development, which, ideally, is somehow also something I can share with the readers.

I'm engaging in thinking, and what is the point of handing the job of thinking itself over, of understanding something more deeply, seeing the pattern that underlies? Why would I want to give up that profound experience?

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Jaan Aru @jaanaru.bsky.social · Oct 2

Insight is not some 'special' process studied only on the fringes of experimental psychology. Having an "Aha!" leaves a mark on the person's mental world and thus has real consequences for behavior. Great paper!

Sander Van de Cruys @sandervdc.bsky.social · Oct 2

Thrilled to say that our new paper, ‘Insight in the conspiracist’s mind’, is finally out in Personality and Social Psychology Review.

With stellar co-authors @joberv.bsky.social @stephengadsby.bsky.social David Gijbels Karolien Poels

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Insight in the Conspiracist’s Mind - Sander Van de Cruys, Jo Bervoets, Stephen Gadsby, David Gijbe...

Academic Abstract The motto of the conspiracist, “Do your own research,” may seem ludicrous to scientists. Indeed, it is often dismissed as a mere rhetorical de...

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Sander Van de Cruys @sandervdc.bsky.social · Oct 2

Accepted pdf here: psyarxiv.com/6ef9u/

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Sander Van de Cruys @sandervdc.bsky.social · Oct 2

Thrilled to say that our new paper, ‘Insight in the conspiracist’s mind’, is finally out in Personality and Social Psychology Review.

With stellar co-authors @joberv.bsky.social @stephengadsby.bsky.social David Gijbels Karolien Poels

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Insight in the Conspiracist’s Mind - Sander Van de Cruys, Jo Bervoets, Stephen Gadsby, David Gijbe...

Academic Abstract The motto of the conspiracist, “Do your own research,” may seem ludicrous to scientists. Indeed, it is often dismissed as a mere rhetorical de...

journals.sagepub.com

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Sep 9

Body Maps of Uncertainty and Surprise in Musical Chord Progression and its individual differences in Depression and Body Perception Sensitivity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.07.556777v1

Music has profoundly shaped the human experience across diverse cultures and generations, yet the me

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